Diogenes:This guy would probably mistrust any American President no matter what he or she did or said. As my sage mother would say, "Consider the source."

Hell yeah. I would expect a lot people in a nation where America has waged war of any sort to have a very dim view of America. As black and white as these issues might seem to us (and people are realizing that they aren't), imagine how these things seem to someone who has known people who have been killed by American soldiers, right or wrong, and who have seen the American military blow up stuff in their backyard.

All day long, American drones loomed in the sky above. "It's very normal," Khail said, speaking in Urdu through a translator with the United Kingdom legal charity Reprieve. "You see them during the day, you see them during the night -- they're always hovering."

That really must be awful, you never know when they take you shooting the shiat with your neighbors as a terr git together where you're gonna fly to merica and blow up some merkins.

actually no.. the Soviets went in with their intention known which is to go in and kickass and invade and kill. Americans OTOH go in under the guise of 'freedom and kindness and bringing democracy' but doing it all through the end of a predator drone or a hellfire missile or an M4 barrel.I think that's what distinguish the US foreign policy from the other conquering nations before.

I wonder too. After all, he's the one who said it was a war of necessity. A war where the vast majority of casualties occurred under Obama, not under Bush. But I get it, the deterioration in the Afghan situation over the past 5 years is Bush's fault.

Headso:All day long, American drones loomed in the sky above. "It's very normal," Khail said, speaking in Urdu through a translator with the United Kingdom legal charity Reprieve. "You see them during the day, you see them during the night -- they're always hovering."

That really must be awful, you never know when they take you shooting the shiat with your neighbors as a terr git together where you're gonna fly to merica and blow up some merkins.

Jake Havechek:muck4doo: Many dickwads here on Fark still think the Soviets were the good guys in this.

Oh really.

I'm goddamn old enough to remember the outrage and anger following the Soviet invasion in 1979. As I recall, the GOP got mad at Carter for not doing anything about it.

Carter boycotted the Olympics. Was that not good enough for you?

Read Fark sometime. There are many dumbshiats here who think the Soviet invasion was a good thing, and the Afghan people would be better off if they had succeeded. I hope you aren't one of those dumbasses.

Mr. Eugenides:Eddie Adams from Torrance: I still cannot understand why Fartb0ng0 got us into that war in the first place.

What the fark is that guy's problem?

I wonder too. After all, he's the one who said it was a war of necessity. A war where the vast majority of casualties occurred under Obama, not under Bush. But I get it, the deterioration in the Afghan situation over the past 5 years is Bush's fault.

Well you see, Bush never finished the job, he decided he wanted to spank Saddam to show the world what a tough guy he was and call himself a "war president" on TV.

Bush diverted important military assets away from al qaeda's biggest stronghold and the Taliban ran away and hid where no one could find them. Shiat, as we all know bin Laden was only dispatched from the planet recently.

rockradio1:If they aren't doing anything wrong as far as terrorism they should have nothing to fear from the drones.

Because no innocent people are ever killed ever.

Look - I'm not 100% sure about drones one way or the other. I like the idea of not risking American lives unnecessarily. And it's cheaper to use drones. And it's easier to minimize collateral damage and all when using drones. Yet I still question their legality and their broad use and whether they are always justified.

But your comment was about as dumb as they come. In addition to being hackneyed.

"When I was in Pakistan, the fury and rage of people about the CIA, about the killing of large numbers of tribal leaders, was profoundly troubling," Greenwald wrote in an email. "Imagine a town hall in the United States bombed, and all the councilmen/women of a city wiped out."

Our country is incredibly farked. We've created so many thousands of blood feuds against ourselves. More 9/11s are absolutely inevitable. People, especially those living in tribal-based societies, don't forgive and forget shiat like this.

No one trusts Obama but idiots, however who cares if an Afghan does? Obama isn't supposed to be looking out for his interests. Even if he isn't a terrorist himself he is associating with Taliban so fark him. This is like asking the deer if he trusts hunters.

I gotta say though the "But,but Bush" thing is getting old though. I remember once upon a time Fark considered it ridiculous to blame a guy who hadn't been in office for years for the current presidents problems and faults. Wonder when that was.....

Digitalstrange:No one trusts Obama but idiots, however who cares if an Afghan does? Obama isn't supposed to be looking out for his interests. Even if he isn't a terrorist himself he is associating with Taliban so fark him. This is like asking the deer if he trusts hunters.

I gotta say though the "But,but Bush" thing is getting old though. I remember once upon a time Fark considered it ridiculous to blame a guy who hadn't been in office for years for the current presidents problems and faults. Wonder when that was.....

Diogenes:rockradio1: If they aren't doing anything wrong as far as terrorism they should have nothing to fear from the drones.

Because no innocent people are ever killed ever.

Look - I'm not 100% sure about drones one way or the other. I like the idea of not risking American lives unnecessarily. And it's cheaper to use drones. And it's easier to minimize collateral damage and all when using drones. Yet I still question their legality and their broad use and whether they are always justified.

But your comment was about as dumb as they come. In addition to being hackneyed.

A) first guy was joking about his "nothing to fear if you're not doing anything wrong comment"B) you should hate the drones. They instill fear in people who have no chance defending themselves, they miss, they kill innocent people, they represent the worst kind of war

All day long, American drones loomed in the sky above. "It's very normal," Khail said, speaking in Urdu through a translator with the United Kingdom legal charity Reprieve. "You see them during the day, you see them during the night -- they're always hovering."

Fark, that would be creepy, knowing exactly the sort of spear that those things are the tip of. And absolutely bizarre, knowing that your land is the ant farm that's commanding the attention of a multi-trillion dollar military from the other side of the planet.